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This paper will discuss the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a Digital Guardian towards social sustainability in Van Vihar National Park, Bhopal. To ensure the quality of the environment and welfare of animals, traditional reactive enforcement is ineffective faced with high levels of human-wildlife interface pressures. The research assesses the real-time surveillance technologies, such as automated crowd counting and intelligent surveillance through interviews with park managers, foresters, and developers. The results indicate that although AI can greatly improve visitor safety and social responsibility, which correlates with the international standards of ESG, ethical issues related to surveillance and the digital divide emerge. The paper wraps up by finding that AI monitoring needs to be accompanied with Smart Storytelling to transform surveillance into a means of environmental education. The stakeholders can be able to scale the models of sustainable tourism that safeguard urban-ecological systems with the necessary social justice. It is a strategy to make AI not only a monitoring tool, but a driver of transparent, traceable, and ethical conservation.

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Smart City, AI-Driven Monitoring, Van Vihar National Park, ESG Framework, Urban Tourism Management

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